Bowness railway station | |
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General information | |
Location | Bowness-on-Solway, Allerdale England |
Coordinates | 54°56′57″N3°13′47″W / 54.949214°N 3.229683°W |
Grid reference | NY213623 |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Solway Junction Railway |
Pre-grouping | Caledonian Railway |
Key dates | |
8 August 1870 [1] | Opened |
September 1917 | closed |
1920 | reopened |
1 September 1921 [2] [3] | Closed to all traffic |
Bowness was a station which served Bowness-on-Solway, a village in Cumbria on the English side of the Solway Firth. The station opened on 8 August 1870 by the Caledonian Railway on a line constructed from the Caledonian Railway Main Line at Kirtlebridge across the Glasgow South Western Line, then forming the Solway Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to Brayton. The line opened for freight from 13 September 1869.
Bowness was opened by the Solway Junction Railway, then part of the Caledonian Railway The passenger service was never well patronised and reduced to being just one carriage at the front of an occasional goods train and in September 1917 this was suspended, [4] but was reinstated in 1920. [5] Passenger services were finally withdrawn in 1921 and the line south of Annan over the Solway Viaduct was closed completely.
The station was only built as an afterthought following a petition from local people. [6] It had two platforms, a signal box, cattle pens and an overbridge at the northern end. Old photographs show a carriage body on one platform as a shelter, etc. [7] In 1910 a watertank was located next to the overbridge and the platform beside the signal box had no buildings, not even a passenger shelter. [8] In 1915 the signalbox was open from 4 am to 8:30 pm.
Disused, the station became the property of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 until sold together with the viaduct. [9]
Beyond Bowness station the railway ran along an embankment and then crossed the estuary of the Solway upon an iron girder viaduct, one mile 176 yards in length. [10] The local people's frustration at the delay in reopening the Solway Viaduct after it was damaged in 1881 is recorded in the newspapers of the day. [8]
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Annan Shawhill | Caledonian Railway Solway Junction Railway | Whitrigg |
The station house is now a private dwelling. [5]
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